Instagram messages between baseball wives Bria Anderson and Elizabeth Swarzak have gone public in a situation that has gone viral.
Anderson, the wife of Chicago White Sox star Tim Anderson, and Swarzak, the wife of Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak, exchanged a series of intense messages on Instagram going back and forth arguing over white supremacy and gun control.
The messages were made public by Ariana Dubelko Giolito, the wife of current White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito, in a series of screen shots that have become national news, The New York Post reports.
Giolito introduces the messages with a bizarre, and frankly, uncalled for commentary stating on Instagram,
“I am so disgusted and disappointed. Bria Anderson is a teacher with a Masters degree working on her doctorate while raising two girls and running a non-profit organization that works with the youth of South Side Chicago. For someone within this baseball family to say such disgraceful and disgusting things, to shamelessly act in a demeaning and hateful way is reprehensible.”
The messages to follow are a series of back and forth verbal sparring sessions between Anderson and Swarzak, where Anderson responds to accusations from Swarzak that she is showing,
“…racism toward white people…”,
in accusing Anderson of believing that mass shootings are only done by white individuals.
Anderson, during the messages, addresses white nationalism, white supremacy, and that,
“…race does not equal party affiliation.”
Swarzak, it appears, is incredulous at the ideas that Anderson is sharing, while Anderson clearly articulates the flaws in Swarzak comments about white nationalism, supremacy and terrorism and the response to mass shootings in America.
Swarzak tries to bring in black on black crime in Chicago as a talking point but Anderson wasn’t having any of it.
The messages themselves are wild.
Moreover, it is fair to question Giolito’s motives for releasing the messages that were clearly private among the women themselves.
Nonetheless, the situation has taken on a life of its own and put this conversation in the national limelight.
Flip the pages to see the wild exchange between Anderson and Swarzak.
